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FARNABY (or FARNABIE), See also:THOMAS (c. 1575–1647)  , See also:English grammarian, was the son of a See also:London See also:carpenter; his grandfather, it is said, had been See also:mayor of See also:Truro, his See also:great-grandfather an See also:Italian musician . Between 1590 and 1595 he appears successively as a student of Merton See also:College, See also:Oxford, a See also:pupil in a Jesuit college in See also:Spain, and a follower of See also:Drake and See also:Hawkins . After some military service in the See also:Low Countries " he made shift," says See also:Wood, " to be set on See also:shore in the western See also:part of See also:England; where, after some wandering to and fro under the name of Tho . Bainrafe, the See also:anagram of his sirname, he settled at Martock, in See also:Somersetshire, and taught the See also:grammar school there for some See also:time with success . After he had gotten some feathers at Martock, he took his See also:flight to London," and opened a school in Goldsmiths' Rents, Cripplegate . From this school, which had as many as 300 pupils, there issued, says Wood, " more churchmen and statesmen than from any school taught by one See also:man in England." In the course of his London career " he was made See also:master of arts of See also:Cambridge, and soon after incorporated at Oxon." Such was his success that he was enabled to buy an See also:estate at Otford near See also:Sevenoaks, See also:Kent, to which he retired from London in 1636, still, however, carrying on his profession of schoolmaster . In course of time he added to his Otford estate and bought another near See also:Horsham in See also:Sussex . In politics he was a royalist; and, suspected of participation in the rising near Tunbridge, 1643, he was imprisoned in See also:Ely See also:House, See also:Holborn . He died at Sevenoaks on the 12th of See also:June 1647 . The details of his See also:life were derived by See also:Anthony a Wood from See also:Francis, See also:Farnaby's son by a second See also:marriage (see Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, ed . See also:Bliss, iii . 213) .

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works chiefly consisted of annotated See also:editions of Latin authors—See also:Juvenal, See also:Persius, See also:Seneca, See also:Martial, See also:Lucan, See also:Virgil, See also:Ovid and See also:Terence, which enjoyed extraordinary popularity . His Systerna grammaticum was published in London in 1641 . On the 6zh of See also:April 1632, Farnaby was presented with a royal patent granting him, for the space of twenty-one years, the See also:sole right of See also:printing and See also:publishing certain of his works .

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